I was waiting for a bus Thursday, May 9, at Liberty Avenue going southbound towards Rockaway at 8:58 am.
Two Q52 buses stopped and I jumped on the first one. The bus stopped at Beach 92nd Street and Rockaway Beach Boulevard.
I walked to Beach 95th Street when two more Q52s and a Q53, which I missed, passed me. So I waited for a Q22 that did not show. Finally, another Q53 showed up and it took me to Beach 105th Street. I got off the bus at 11:03 am.
This trip usually takes 30 minutes. I was curious and waited another 10 minutes to confirm the routine disaster of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Three Q22 buses passed me and then two Q53 buses.
Why doesn’t the Q52 stop at 95th Street and Rockaway Beach Boulevard coming to Rockaway? Why doesn’t the Q52 going toward Broad Channel also stop at Beach 94th Street near the 100th Precinct to improve shorter walking distances to the Q22 and Q53 connections? This would help a little bit.
The MTA would call this on-time and routine. I call this third world, unreliable, communistic, bureaucratic monopoly junk.
Keep trying, MTA. You might get it right someday.
Philip McManus
Rockaway Park
